Merrifield, who signed with the Phillies as a free agent in February, was hitting .199 with a .572 OPS in 53 games this season.
Shortly after Weston Wilson was sent down to triple A Lehigh Valley on June 15, he got a text from Kevin Long. It was short. “Get hot, stay hot,” Long wrote. They used to say that all the time, but Wilson had been struggling with it lately. He was hitting .211/.296/.390 at the time of his call up on June 3.
He has never hit the ball particularly hard, but reached new lows with the Phillies. Over those 53 games, Merrifield recorded a 17.4% hard-hit rate and an average exit velocity of 83 mph. Both were the lowest marks of his nine seasons in the big leagues. He knows he has an opportunity ahead of him; now, the key is to not overthink it. Wilson was one of the last roster cuts in camp this spring, and found himself putting too much weight into every at-bat over the first few months of the minor league season.
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